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/ Our Approach / Refugee-Led Efforts

We are deeply committed to creating space for and elevating refugee voices and leadership within our organization and the broader humanitarian community. We partner with refugees to support them to achieve their aims and are committed to ensuring that refugees are an integral part of our program design, implementation, and monitoring, as well as our overall agency governance.

Our Approach to Supporting RLOs and CBOs

RefugePoint has long recognized the vital role that refugee-led organizations (RLOs) and community based organizations (CBOs) play in responding to the needs of their own communities. RefugePoint exchanges knowledge, skills, and learning with RLOs and CBOs and provides resources to support and strengthen the important work these organizations are doing to elevate lasting solutions in refugee communities. RefugePoint takes a three-pronged approach to support RLOs and CBOs:

Coordination

Capacity Strengthening

Financial Support

Coordination

Supporting refugee-led organization (RLO) coordination through the development of RLO-networks, as well as working with other agencies that are supporting RLOs to share learning, promote common understanding related to ongoing coordination efforts, opportunities for joint work, and common challenges.

Capacity Strengthening

Convening cohorts of refugee-led organizations (RLOs) and community based organizations (CBOs) to provide training and mentoring on technical and operational priorities identified by the cohorts, and to facilitate networking, knowledge sharing and exchange.

Financial Support

Directly supporting refugee-led organizations (RLOs) and community based organizations (CBOs) with funding to complement capacity strengthening and facilitating connections between funders and RLOs and CBOs to channel increased funding directly to these groups.

RefugePoint's
Refugee-Led Efforts Impact:

Peer-to-Peer Learning

50+

Over the last three years, we have reached 50+ refugee-led organizations through peer-to-peer learning sessions. These sessions allow refugee-led organizations to connect with one another and other stakeholders such as NGOs and government agencies.

Learn about Bortopra Youth Group, which helped 70+ people to access music and media training.

Grants for RLOs

We have issued grants to nine refugee-led organizations and continue to grow the grant portfolio each year.

The Peer-to-Peer Learning Sessions have helped Oak Solutions learn from other community-based organizations (CBOs) and establish relationships at our level. The sessions are inspiring as we meet peer organizations going through similar challenges but keeping the hope alive as we work with local solutions to our challenges.